Remember March 26th last year when we did this? – Anti-cuts march: Anger amid the carnival
Well, it’s nearly time to do it all over again.
This year’s march and rally – A Future That Works – will be on October 20th, with demonstrators setting off from the Embankment sometime around 11am, and ending up in Hyde Park several hours later.
The march for A Future That Works is happening for pretty much the same reasons as last time, but with a few more thrown in for good measure. It’s been over a year since the last demo don’t forget, and I don’t think back then even the most hardened and cynical among us could have predicted the extent of the devastation this government would have wreaked on the country in such a short space of time. In a nutshell, austerity isn’t working, and it’s about time our esteemed leaders woke up to that fact. Mind you, this Government isn’t working either, but sadly I think we’re stuck with them a while yet.
Anyway, I see Jon managed to beat me to this by blogging about it a couple of days ago, but he doesn’t have a great big ugly clock thingy in his sidebar counting down the months and days to the big event, so I think I get to win the Internet or something for that…..
I am in need of a big clock thing clearly! With or without the chronometer, we need to maximise turnout on the demo!
Well said. Love the clock
Hiya Cath, yer blog looks really weird for some reason? Last few times I tried it just got the heading so gave up. March 26th seems a lifetime ago. Haven’t even heard about this, but then that is probably because I am currently engaged in a fight to the collapse from the stupidity of it all with my employers who have put me at risk of redundancy when I am not actually at risk of redundancy on account of there is a ‘new’ job which is very similar to the point of being indistinguishable from the one I am doing now and there are 4 of us in the selection pool for 4 jobs! Union currently arguing with them. And that is why we need unions, as I keep saying…..
Sorry to hear that Polly, what a bloody trial that must be.
And what do you mean the blog looks weird? Weird how?
You may have been trying to get on it when I was messing around with the workings – I know you’re supposed to take the blog offline or something when you’re doing that, but I can never be arsed, and I know someone else who thought it was broken when it turned out they’d clicked on here just as I was uploading the new header.
Glad you managed to get on in the end though – good to have you back 🙂
It looks ok when I’ve got the post up, but if you just put the blog address up, you seem to get miles of header. Anyway I saw you on CiF the other night on that bleeding assange thread, FFS. I still want to know he’s meant to get to the airport…..Hope you’re ok anyway, sorry about your mum,